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We Need Your Nominations! Hello, Calling Caldecott readers! As the year comes to a close, we’re calling on you to help us identify the most distinguished picture books of 2024. We’re inviting you to submit three more nominations to keep the conversation vibrant and ensure we spotlight the very best...
When I first saw Chris Park’s jacket art for Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic’s Touch the Sky, I was struck by its bold colors, display type that would fit right into street art near a city playground, and by painterly, energetic brushstrokes evoking the soaring movement of the child on a...
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Fanfare 2024 extras
Read more by and about some of our Fanfare 2024 authors and illustrators below. Find our at-a-glance Fanfare 2024 booklist here and our newly annotated list here. Picture Books Sophie Blackall Sophie Blackall Talks with Roger A Conversation with Sophie Blackall by Julie Danielson 2019 Caldecott Medal Acceptance by...
A new book by Elizabeth Partridge is always a cause for celebration. I taught her Marching for Freedom for many years at my school, and her books about photographer Dorothea Lange (her godmother) are beautiful, full of archival photographs. When I got wind that Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge...
Below is Fanfare, a list of the books that the Horn Book editors and reviewers have selected as the best of 2024. The annotated list will be published in the December issue of Notes from the Horn Book (sign up!) and in the January/February 2025 issue of the Horn Book Magazine...
This week on hbook.com... Matthew Cordell Talks with Roger about To See an Owl From the November/December 2024 Horn Book Magazine: YA Finds Its Way by Horn Book editors The Writer's Page: My Own Sa I Gu by Paula Yoo From the January/February 2025 Horn Book Magazine:...
Desert Song, written in spare, lyrical prose by Laekan Zea Kemp and illustrated by Beatriz Gutiérrez Hernández, celebrates interconnectedness. As a multigenerational family gathers at sundown to make music, the landscape surrounding their desert home shares the stage. A menagerie of lively creatures is drawn to the family’s song, and,...
The first time I read My Daddy Is a Cowboy, I was drawn to C. G. Esperanza’s stunning illustrations and the sweetness of the narrative by Stephanie Seales. I love a good father-daughter story, and this one comes wrapped in an incredibly beautiful package. On subsequent readings, I only found...
I first learned about artist Corita Kent in 2021 when I heard a radio news headline about the city of Los Angeles granting an historical landmark status to her art studio. A campaign launched by her fans had prevented the building from being turned into a parking lot. Researching who...
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